Dangerous defaults... oldest attack still works
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Wed Jun 8 20:11:08 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 22:03 +0200, Andy Pieters wrote:
> Hi again
>
> Is Fedora Core aware that the oldest attack known to Unix still works? I mean
> why don't they put a default to ulimit instead of unilimted?
>
> Does fork bomb ring a bell?
This has been beaten to death time after time on this list. Please read
the archives before posting this kind of claptrap.
Thomas
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